This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeC.2ACI/79.213.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a copy of a letter saying McCaws were cast adrift from Bute-presumably for sheep stealing, and by wnd and tide came to N. Ireland. I am not aware McCaws became protestant on reaching Ireland. My earliest McCaw reference is 1481and a place called Drumboy let to Donald McCawe. My earliest Bute reference is 1490 when Christian McCaw witnessed a sasine(legal document) in favour of Ninian Stewart the Sheriff of Bute.